The power of hope in action: Raising our Heads Above the Clouds facilitation guide

The Mt Elgon Self-Help Community Project, based in rural Uganda, uses narrative practices to spark and sustain local social action and economic development among isolated and disadvantaged communities.
Quite often, people in vulnerable communities are positioned as passive recipients of aid programs developed elsewhere. The Mt Elgon approach is different. It starts with local knowledge and values.
This facilitation guide has been created to assist practitioners to use the “Raising Our Heads Above the Clouds” methodology developed by the Mt Elgon Self-Help Community Project. The guide describes the local values this approach is built on, and the narrative assumptions and principles that underpin it. We take the reader through each step of this innovative process. We share stories from practitioners in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda and reflections about how the Mt Elgon approach fosters community economy through collective narrative practice.
The mission of the Mt Elgon Self-Help Community Project is to improve the quality of life of rural people affected by poverty, disasters, conflict and disease through capacity-building, income generation, self-help groups and using our resources in ways that benefit people and the environment.
www.mt-elgonproject.org

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